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Five Application Trends Coming Out of 2010 CES
Consumer apps were everywhere at the 2010 CES show. Here are five of the application trends for online application marketers that I noted from my attendance at CES: 1) Optimism rules at 2010 CES show. Gary Shapiro, Chief Executive of CES, said the CES show “seemed more upbeat than a year ago, reflecting a return to optimism for the [...]
Why Shopping Add-ons (and Installed Applications) Are So Useful
This evening I went online to BestBuy.com to pick up a new monitor for my home office PC. My old monitor crapped out a few days ago, and I’ve been meaning to get around to purchasing a new one. I tend to avoid brick and mortar stores for consumer electronic purchases, and BestBuy.com is usually the first website I start with when shopping for [...]
The Risk of Heavy Customer Concentration
Just this week, local Minnesota-based Digital River lost its largest client, Symantec, which represented approximately 30% of their revenue. Based on the public reaction from senior management, it appears that Digital River was blindsided by Symantec’s announcement. The negative 38% impact on Digital River’s stock price was not too pretty. I [...]
The Secrets of a Successful Sales Team
Recently I was interviewed by Britt Johnsen for the latest quarterly issue of ROI Magazine. UPDATE 11/13/09- The article is no longer available online I thought Britt did an excellent job summarizing the best practices of Central Minnesota sales leaders in her cover story "The Secrets of a Successful Sales Team". The following are the [...]
Twin Cities Young Entrepreneur Award Pictures
About a week ago on Twitter I posted a link to a picture I took of Daren Cotter (Cotterweb founder), Ryan Weber, and myself with the new Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Kurt Rambis as a part of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal's Young Entrepreneur Award event. The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal posted quite a few more [...]
How Brands Can Drive Mobile Application Distribution
This post is in response to Ad Age's How Brands Can Build a Successful App Strategy- 12 Lessons From Benjamin Moore, Bank of America, Kraft and Others article. Is it about creating a niche application (see mickeylonchar’s comment), or is it about having an application distribution strategy? Social media and existing assets can certainly [...]
GenY Entrepreneurship
I just started reading Donna Fenn’s new book, Upstarts (http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0071601880.html). I first heard about the book when Donna contacted me as part of her research. Donna has a great perspective on what drives today’s young entrepreneurs. Her perspective on GenY reminds me of a book I read on vacation a couple of months [...]
Connecting the Dots
For my first personal blog post, I thought I'd simply list some of the other places you can find me active online. 1) W3i Blog- http://blog.W3i.com 2) LinkedIn- http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjweber 3) Twitter- http://twitter.com/robertjweber